A pile of new books arrived today! Check out descriptions & cover images below and ask at any of the branches of the library and we’ll reserve them for you.
Summer of Fire – Karen Bass
Sixteen-year-old Del expects to have a lousy summer. She’s been shipped off to Germany to visit her uptight older sister, Cassandra. And it’s not for a summer holiday – it’s punishment. Her parents are fed up with her habit of getting into trouble and then running away.
At first she clashes with everybody. Then she meets Felix, a cute guy who’s the nephew of Cassandra’s neighbour, Luise.
Luise has translated her grandmother’s diary and asks Del to read it. Garda — a pregnant teenager in the middle of World War II Germany — tells the story of a dangerous and desperate life. As she reads, Del begins to see her own problems differently. But as Garda’s life reaches into her own, will Del just try to run away one more time?
Gravity Brings Me Down – Natale Ghent
Sioux S
mith is sharp, funny, and wry, and is pretty certain that she sees the world of high school differently from everyone else – a belief that is cemented when she makes an uneasy discovery about one of her school’s “popular” teachers. And while she feels alone at her high school and in her unique slant on small town life, Sioux finds a kindred spirit in the most unlikely of people: an elderly stranger, a woman who has more insight despite her progressing dementia, than anyone else in Sioux’s life. What Sioux and “Miss Marple” discover about each other over tea, illicitly secreted wine, and Coronation Street, makes for a novel with heart and grit in equal measure.
Not Suitable for Family Viewing – Vicki Grant
If your life were a TV show, would you even get a speaking part?
Robin has everything a girl cou
ld want. Thanks to her mother – the internationally beloved talk show host Mimi Schwartz – Robin’s got the money, the means and the connections to make even her wildest dreams come true.
Why, then, does she choose to sit alone in a dark room watching endless reruns of You, You, and Mimi?
Don’t ask Robin. She doesn’t know – at least, not until a bizarre discovery propels her to ditch her pampered New York Life for a deserted Nova Scotian fishing village. There, she stumbles upon love, the truth of her own background — and the shocking secret that helped make her mother a star.
Rough Magic – Caryl Cude Mullin
Out in the midst of the ocean, rising out of the rough seas, lies a mysterious island. It has seen visitors over the years and has learned to fear them. Humans have done nothing but take, stealing the island’s magic and enslaving its spirits.
Caliban, born to a great sorceress who was marooned on the island shores, gr
ew up half-wild with its creatures. Having escaped the island to live amongst kingdoms and courtiers for many years, he now finds himself returning with his young charge Chiara, a girl who has a power within her that no one suspected. Once back on the island, they are joined by Calypso, a magical young woman with ties to them all.
Me, Myself, and Ike – K. L. Denman 
The guys huddle closer and murmur; the girls incline their heads together and whisper. They’re wall talking about me. I’ll bet if they were taking I could see their tattoos. They’ve been taken. They’re waiting for me to be taken, too.
Kit Katimer used to be happy. He had a beautiful girlfriend,a few close friends, and a solid family life. Now his only friend is the enigmatic and possibly deranged Ike, who convinced Kit to undertake a secret and very dangerous mission. Increasingly alienated, paranoid and confused, Kit stands to lose everything – including his life – if Ike has his way.
Jatta – Jenny Hale
Jatta is a princess in the kingdom of Alteeda, but her life is no fairy tale. Her mother was slain by werewolves when Jatta was three years old, and the palace has been haunted by fear ever since. Then
Jatta wakes one morning, bruised and disoriented, soaked in sweat, to see her bedroom smeared with bloody paw prints….
Ender has been sent to battle school by his parents. Fighting in real and simulated practice fights reveals his leadership potential when other students start to follow him and take lessons from him. He might even be ready to lead his own army in combat. Oh, and did I mention? Ender is six years old.
